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The Nativity on Ice in Austria
It's a chilly piece of art with a heart-thawing message. A well-known Austrian artist has carved a life-size manger scene out of ice.
Since 1996, Hoedl and his international team have created a giant ice sculpture Nativity scene in Graz, Austria, displayed throughout the Advent season, The Huffington Post reported.
"People from the tourist office asked me if I have an idea for an attraction in the Advent season, because the Advent season is a highlight in whole Europe. And then I was thinking, I have to do an ice-scape in ice," Hoedl said in a Nov. 27 video clip on Norwegian news agency scanpix (http://en.scanpix.no/spWebApp/preview.action?search.tabId=nyhetsvideo&search.refPtrs=sy95f9da). "You get it in chocolate, you get it marzipan, you get it in wood, but it was never done in ice," he said.
"So we started to make the first ice-scape, as I said, in 1996. Since then, it was a real success. Every year the Advent season is growing with the visitors, and every year around 600 to 700 thousand people come to look at the ice-scape."
This year, the team used ice blocks, chainsaws and chisels to create the figures out of 54 tons of ice. The scene includes all the crèche figures – Jesus, Mary and Joseph, along with angels, the Magi and a star. The team – Graz and two artists from Finland, two from Latvia and two from Austria – began work on the sculpture Nov. 25 and worked for two days to complete the icy project.
Hoedl has been creating sculptures out of ice for the past two decades, according to his website, iceandart.com. He enjoys working with ice because, he remarks on the site, "this world of frozen water, whatever its size, is not more than an expression of nature – its destruction is inevitable, it will melt." In 2002, the city of Graz asked Hoedl to create the National Ice Carving Association Ice Art World Championship.
The scene will be displayed until Jan. 7, a day after Epiphany, in the Landhaus courtyard.


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Hanne Darboven at Dia:Chelsea
The 1,590 papers and 19 objects—some disturbing, some mysterious and others creepily idyllic—that German conceptual artist Hanne Darboven (1941-2009) exhibited in 1983 are now on view at Dia:Chelsea.
The 1,590 papers and 19 objects—some disturbing, some mysterious and others creepily idyllic—that German conceptual artist Hanne Darboven (1941-2009) exhibited in 1983 are now on view at Dia:Chelsea.
Barbara Grover's new series of photographs documenting hunger in America are being shown in an immersive, participatory exhibit hosted in an expandable trailer that travels from city to city.
Although drawn to abstraction, Vanessa Bell was adamant that her art needed some element of figuration, saying that 'the reason I think that artists paint life and not patterns is that certain qualities of life, what I call movement, mass, weight, have aesthetic value.'
Unlike Monet, Camille Pissarro preferred canvas sizes intended to appeal, in their modesty, to the private collector, rather than to bid for public glory.
The possibilities offered by red-figure vase painting intrigued the masterful fifth-century Athenian artist known as the "Berlin painter," who expanded the black background of his vases and diminished their red subjects to single, static figures.
Everything in Sara Berman's closet, now installed at the Met, is white and beige and simple and beautiful and funny and beautifully organized.
In many prints on display at the Japan Society, male youths are almost impossible to distinguish in dress and deportment from the female beauties in the same pictures.
The video artist Bill Viola has returned again and again to Florence to refresh his ideas, keeping up a long-running engagement with the work of the old masters.
After he based himself at Éragny in his mid-fifties, Camille Pissarro started butting his canvases with tiny hog-brush flecks of hues that restaged the retina's primal encounters with light.
A retrospective of Lygia Pape's work at the Met Breuer is highly conceptual but never loses a deep connection with the visceral realities of daily life.
Howard Hodgkin's paintings burn into eyes and minds, leaving a trace behind the eyelids, a memory to which we can return. Their voices collide, tumble, whisper, sing, shout.
The Chinese have a better claim than most people of being heirs to a unified culture that began roughly in the third century BC. This idea forms the basis of the fascinating exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Qin and Han dynasty artifacts.
The razzle-dazzle exhibition "The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s," attempts to define the elusive word at its heart.
The objects of Matisse's daily life delighted, inspired, or confounded him, in their humble ordinariness and in all that they evoked.
Jamel Shabazz's photographs of New York street life are usually the result of consent, not a furtive snapshot—so people comport themselves with a bright, willful crispness, rising to the aesthetic occasion.
The photographs Henri Cartier-Bresson took in India between 1947 and 1980 are quiet, self-effacing, and resolutely static. Even when he shoots in crowds, as he does at a cattle sale, there is little sense of movement or noise.
Irving Penn's finest portraits prompted his subjects into remarkable revelations through posture and facial expression.
Raymond Pettibon's drawings show the travails of a complex man haunted by private conflicts and quick to answer the voices in his head.
A show of recent work from Joan Jonas — an influential, eighty-one-year-old artist who divides her time between New York and Nova Scotia — surveys her restless and eclectic career.
Diane Arbus took her New York park photographs during the day, but the figures they show sometimes look like creatures you'd expect to find at night.
In Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's seventeen unframed portraits of black people, the paint continues to the edges of each canvas. There are no titles or wall texts beside them; with one exception, they are all of one person or of one person and a cat or a bird.
Curator Andrew Bolton, in collaboration with Kawakubo, has selected nearly 150 pieces—which vary from large, sculptural dresses to intricate and often elaborate multi-textured works— from throughout her career.
In her Jazz Age paintings, Florine Stettheimer conveyed a sophisticated self-awareness of the confining assumptions facing a hardworking woman artist between the wars.
At this time of year opera leaves London for the shires, and the phenomenon known as country-house opera begins.
A new show at the Andrew Freedman Home featuring art by previously or currently incarcerated artists demonstrates the diversity of artistic forms and expressions that have emerged within prison settings.
Three outstanding exhibitions in England—and two more shows to come—suggest the richness and range of the Royal Collection.
An exhibition at the National Gallery of Art surveys nineteenth-century America's evolving taste for the French painting of the previous century.
Few have the expertise to say why WWI was or wasn't worth fighting. The war itself, though, is vividly, viscerally remembered through a series of images, stories, and rituals.
A new exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago surveys Saul Steinberg's electrifying work.
June brings us Agnes Varda, D.A. Pennebaker's Monterey Pop, Vittorio De Sica's Il Boom!, and more...
Ernst Lubitsch created not only a style but a place, his imaginary homeland; in his films we are always looking back toward some long-lost capital city of joy.
Derain, Balthus, and Giacometti were determined to revisit the relationship between art and reality following the revolutions of early-twentieth-century artists. They wanted to discover a new, moonlit truth.
The Morgan has brought together nearly one hundred relics of this American saint, including the small green desk on which he wrote most of his life work, the flute with which he enchanted Margaret Fuller and other humans and nonhumans alike, as well as more than twenty of his Journal notebooks.
Frequent New York Review contributor and Library of America editor-in-chief Geoffrey O'Brien reads a selection of his poems with Ruth Lepson and Lloyd Schwartz.


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© Sep 2011 Volume 9 Issue 3, ECIC 2011, Editor: Geoff Turner and Clemente Minonne, pp181 - 295
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In this paper we offered a new approach towards analysis of Intangible Assets. The conceptual framework of our research was based on taxonomy proposed by Contractor (2000) and we focused our study on intangible assets that formed uncodified human capital. The aim of this research was to discriminate the most crucial intangible assets that were absolutely indispensible in the organisational value creation. On the basis of a questionnaire tool we constructed an Information Table according to Pawlak (1982). Next we applied Rough Sets method to analyse our data. The choice of the data analysis technique was determined by numerous advantages associated with Rough Sets that were not so obvious in turn when considering traditional statistical methods. Consequently we obtained a set of intangible assets that were absolutely necessary in the organisational value creation process. This set was form by 14 different indicators that embraced aspects related to training, competencies and culture. Nearly all of them had a qualitative character. In relation to training, apart from the trainings frequency and quality, such aspects as knowledge dissemination and evaluation of the need for training were highlighted. Despite of being under in the area of Training, the aspect of cooperation was emphasized in the area of Competencies. In that section, apart from the requirement of particular knowledge necessary in each position, importance was placed on soft skills like motivation, team building and cooperation. In the area of organisational culture, there were two elements of importance: the level of freedom when performing duties and the degree to which management attends to employees problems. Consequently, we can conclude that despite belonging to various sections, all of the crucial intangible assets stressed the absolute importance of the active participation of employees in the organisational decision making. This constitutes clear evidence of the important role of Intellectual Capital in corporate value creation.
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Today, you will receive two different posts. I have written these articles in advance already and are scheduled for automatic posting because one is the birthday of the said Bodhisattva, and the other is to give you enough time to prepare for the ritual.
It is quite exciting for me to write this post because on this post I will be introducing you to another powerful and highly revered Bodhisattva that is usually mistaken as Bodhisattva Kuan Yin (also spelled as Guan Yin, or known as Avalokitesvara, Kannon, Cannon, Guan Shi Yin, Kuan Shi Yin).
Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva, like Kuan Yin Bodhisattva is actually a Bodhisattva Mahasattva, which means he is one of those higher Bodhisattvas. Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva is also known in Chinese as Da Shi Zhi Pu Sa. He is actually one of the three sages in Pure Land Buddhism that can be differentiated from by Guan Yin Bodhisattva with the jeweled pitcher adorning his/her crown. In Pure Land Buddhism, Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva is usually depicted in his/her female form.
A lot of Buddhist lineage considers Bodhisattva Mahasthamaprapta as representing wisdom, which makes him/her similar to Bodhisattva Manjushri. However, the difference, as his/her name means "arrival of great strength", her form of wisdom is more in the form in inner strength in times of adversity.
Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva or Da Shi Zhi Pu Sa is part of the Amita Trinity, which consists of Amitabha Buddha, Guan Yin Bodhisattva, and Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva. He/She is also one the Eight Great Bodhisattvas in Mahayana Buddhism, here he/she is along with Bodhisattva Kuan Yin, Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha, Bodhisattva Manjushri, Bodhisattva Samantabhadra, Bodhisattva Akasagarbha, Bodhisattva Sarvanjyarana – Vishkambhin (which I will write about soon), and Bodhisattva Maitreya or is more popularly known as the Happy Fat Buddha.
Some Buddhist lineages sometime equate Bodhisattva Mahasthamaprapta with Bodhisattva Vajrapani, which makes her a very powerful Bodhisattva. Like Vajrapani Bodhisattva, she is also considered as a PROTECTOR OF THE BUDDHA. The SUTRA OF INFINITE LIFE talks about Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva in high regards.
The Chinese Buddhist Encyclopedia has this to say about Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva:
In the Shurangama Sutra, Mahasthamaprapta tells of how he gained enlightenment through the practice of Buddha recitation, or continuous pure mindfulness of Amitābha, to obtain samādhi. In the Contemplation Sutra, Mahāsthāmaprāpta is symbolised by the moon while Avalokiteśvara is represented by the sun.
Mahasthamaprapta (Sanskrit, "One Who Has Obtained Great Power") awakens in humans their need to be liberated from Samsara. In Pure Land Buddhism he is often paired with Avalokiteshvara in association with Amitabha Buddha; Avalokiteshvara enacts Amitabha's compassion, and Mahasthamaprapta brings to humanity the power of Amitabha's wisdom.
Today is Bodhisattva Mahasthamaprapta's Birthday or Feast day, and by chanting her mantra, we will definitely get some blessings. But more than that Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva's is a great Bodhisattva to help us overcome addictions, or problems that has something to do with inner determination.
Bodhisattva Mahasthamaprapta's mantras are the following:
HUM VAJRA PHAT (pronounced as Pay) OM VAJRA CHANDA (pronounced as Zhanzha) MAHA RO (pronounced as Luo) KHA NA HUM PHAT (pronounced as Pay).
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I'm thinking of my parents a lot these days.
I know my transition is conflated with my grief over their deaths a few years ago, but it's complicated in so many ways I don't know how to untangle the threads.
I want to tell them I'm sorry for being such a shitty adolescent, haughty, argumentative, and contrary.
I want to ask them their advice about my own children, relationships, investments, and other life's choices.
I want to see them again and show them that everything turned out all right, that my tears at their windy hillside gravesite about what I was about to do a few years ago have dried up and that they shouldn't worry about me.
I guess I want them to accept the new me and to hear my story, to marvel over how well I've turned out, to sit down over lunch and talk.
Maybe I want them to tape my school artwork on the ice-box.
I don't know what I want. I just miss them.
In a lot of ways, I have grown up to be my mother. Would she approve? Would she understand? Would my father feel disappointment at having his son grow up to be a woman? Would the reunion be characterized by hate, fear, confusion, arguing, and distance?
It's all academic. They're gone and nothing's gonna bring them back.
I try to answer Bon Jovi's question, "Who Says You Can't Go Home?" It depends on what you mean by "home," doesn't it?
First, of course you can go home any time you want — if home is a place and hasn't been demolished, it's easy to return and walk the streets again.
Second, your old home is like a momentary ripple in the stream of life and while you may return to the stream later in life, that eddy, those water molecules, that day when you dipped your toe into the water — it's long gone and will never return. If you're lucky, you may experience the stream with similar feeling as you did previously, but there are no guarantees.
Third, if you consider home to be your past, then you might as well yearn for time travel because if you go back and try to re-live your experiences, you'll end up the pathetic character who sings Springsteen's "Glory Days."
This final idea urges me to quit missing my parents, or at least quit wishing to speak with them. But just how do I do that? As I grow up and change, I need find some way to make peace with my pasts without being constrained by them.


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Electricity Generating (Egco), Thailand's first independent power producer, today announced that it is buying the Boco Rock development. Egco is contributing AUS $110 million in equity, with the remainder coming from loans by a consortium of banks.
The total project is valued at AUS $350 million and, when completed, will consist of up to 121 turbines. Construction will start late this year, with power delivery scheduled to begin in February 2015.
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This represents the first major order for the GE 1.7MW turbine, which was launched in May and is based on the 1.6MW platform. The 1.7-100 is claimed to generate 6% more energy compared with the 1.6-100, both assuming 7.5m/s average wind speeds.


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[Produced by Pete Rock]
[Verse 1: CL Smooth]
Introducing C.L. then face the feats
Then I remind you of third street when it was sweet
See this, move on and grow to another plateau
With me and... havin that dough
In the last days when critical times, Ileft
To deal with my grand daddy's endeavors
When correcting my errors the first shot came in 91
E.P. done my struggle
To label this untouchable foundation due in 92, top ten review
Respect new when that flew, They Reminisce Over You
Skirt chasin what they rate me in this whole rap affair
But when it really comes down to it who cares
Like the tortoise and the hare ya know the race I run
But ya losin all the nights, ya let the rabbit get the gun
Number one wit a bullet and my pit name, black
It's the best who ever did it on a Pete Rock track
[Hook x2: Pete Rock]
Ayo two cool cats who reclaim the name
Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth in this here rap game
But the good news is that there is a crew
Not 5 not 4 not 3 (Just two!)
[Verse 2: Pete Rock]
In the beginning, let it be like the record spinning
As a child I stack 45's in a pile blow the dust off
Put it on before I can walk
Play static on my pop dukes automatic
I knew I wasn't average music in my bloodstream
My pops watch his son live his dream
Now as time flew, the original classy rock crew
Shine through on streets and avenues
The next chapter you read it MC Shan said it
Gotta give the man behind wheels credit
Yes yes y'all, BLS and Marley Marl
The Rap Attack put my talents on the map
Now it's Pete Rock for days in Tha Basement
As I amaze watch me blow in 98 ways
I specialize in rap, DJ and produce
With more hot tracks then Carlos DeJesus
Hook x2
[Verse 3: CL Smooth]
What it look like, ain't nothin changed but the weather
Still riding with C.D.'s and leather, roll fives and better
For all that's folded in ya pocket, how long it take
To re-up and clock it, drop and make a profit
And lay my position with you that we know what to do
And not to do, stop this fighting each other
God knowledge ya wiz, that you know who the enemy is, furthermore
Don't hide it divide it then X ya squares
To keep them other cats folded like beach chairs
Got an eye on that street aristocrat
Let C.L. show ya where the strengths at
Turn it up right here or just call the cop
Cuz we on it like this to the last stop
The next Humphrey Bogart, mastering art
Like a jeweler wit a diamond cutter, taking em apart
Don't start what ya can't finish
When ya bubble wit skills that never diminish
Ya best team against mine is a light scrimmage
So play like Popeye and eat spinach
Hook x2
The song showcases a reunion of Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth on this joint right here for the first time since their break up


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Posted 02 June 2002 - 09:04 PM
Is there anyone known about my problems, please help me. Thanks very much in advance. Here is my email address: email@example.com.
Posted 05 June 2002 - 08:27 AM
Blur and distorted bands may come from a large amount of your protein. Usually, I use 5% stacking and 13% separating gel without any problem. After adding APS and TEMED, you must pour fast, in order to get well polimerized gel.
Posted 05 June 2002 - 09:02 PM
Thanks very much for your answer. But the problem is I only use 16ul sample and 4 ul for loading buffer. Even though with RNA extracted from SA11 ( from cell culture)by phenol/chloroform method, I also got these matters. By the way, how many voltage( or Ampere) do you usually use for running the gel and how many hours?
Hopefully receiving your suggestions soon,
Doan Lan.
Posted 11 August 2002 - 01:47 AM
I also generally use 10% resolvin and 3-3.5% stacking gel, but usually don't get such problems. anyway, you can check with your %-age of APS, and try a little more amount of APS to prepare your stacking gel. it does not harm the protein sample.
regarding your resolving gel, do you use glycerol to prepare this gel? approx. 10% glycerol in the resolving gel solution is good for the clarity. after pouring the resolving gel you may not need to overlay it with water, instead you can slowly add the stacking gel soln. over it directly with a pasteur pipette,but when pouring it you must move the pasteur pipette to and fro along the length of the gel. this procedure is good for avoiding the extra water in the gel, but need a practised hand.
another thing you can check, the preperation of the acrylamide soln. should be correctly 30%, if there is any mistake the final stacking gel as well as the resolving gel concentrations will be changed, and may be that as the %age of stacking gel is low it is not properly getting hard, while the resolving gel though being ultimately less than 10% , getting hard. you should check it from the size of the protein marker in the gel. usually you should view upto 20kd proteins in 10% gel.
I recommend to run the gel in constant volt of 200V in a BIO-RAD minigel apparatus.
Posted 14 August 2002 - 02:03 PM
i have been working lately with west nile virus and have no trouble at all with the sds.form what u say i could understand that the amount of temed and aps may not be sufficient to have ur gel polymerised completely.
also u can check ur acrylamide which when contaminated may give u improper staining and poor polymerization.i have no idea of how water can saty at the bottom when ur gel hardens...watre is lightere than ur gel and will float.if u have trouble then try using ethanol but should really matter.check ur gel recepie...if u have trouble get the lamenellis sds gel receipe...it works just fine.try using a 12% gel...works with great results for me
the gel u can run at 50 volts until it runs through the stacking and then run at 150 volts tilll about last couple of centimeters of the gel.if u dont run ur gel right u may end up with distorted bands.
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Posted 24 September 2002 - 01:39 PM
1) that your 10% APS is not old. You should make fresh APS every week or two.
2) that you add enough TEMED.
3) that you are waiting long enough (don't disturb the gel for at least 30 min after pouring the mixture).
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Posted 20 November 2002 - 12:14 AM
1. the period is too long to stainning it with comassie blue after you run gel;
2. the protein was loaded more than the gel resolution on the short distance.
Posted 19 August 2004 - 09:22 PM
i know this is going against popular opinion but try running ur gel at a fixed current instead of voltage. a good try would be 15 mA to 20 mA depending on the size of gel. if u are able to run it at cold temperature, i.e. cold running buffer in a cold room or fridge.
for my case this greatly increased band intensity, especially the smaller ones that migrates close to the dye which usually diffuses.
there are logical reasons for this, i think u can look it up in textbooks.
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The Labour Party is to unveil new targets to help boost the number of working class and ethnic minority candidates entering the civil service.
A future Labour government would fast-track hundreds of w orking class candidates and applicants from black and minority ethnic communities (BME) in order to create a more inclusive and representative civil service, as part of their One Nation vision for Britain.
In a speech on Tuesday, Labour's shadow minister for the Cabinet Office Michael Dugher will say that Whitehall has become too "distant and remote" from the very people it serves.
He will say: "Labour would make sure kids from working class backgrounds can help run the country by busting open Whitehall. We want ordinary kids with extraordinary talents to be able to go from the classroom to the corridors of power.
"Politics can often feel distant and remote from working people - Labour's answer is to put them at the heart of our system. We want a One Nation civil service which looks more like those it is intended to serve.
"The civil service is like a closed shop, with fewer women, fewer ethnic minorities and fewer kids with working class parents. Labour will create a new generation of civil service leaders which will change the culture of government."
Mr Dugher will tell the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) think-tank: "A Labour government would be One Nation in outlook as well as make-up. One of the greatest ambitions must be to help run your country and this should never be confined to one region, class or gender."
Under a shake-up of the Fast Stream programme, the proportion of black and ethnic minority candidates will double from its current level to 18%, while working-class candidates will need to make up 24% of the scheme.
Since 2010, the make-up of ethnic minority people in the civil service has fallen by almost 10%, with less than one in ten mandarins now from an ethnic minority.
There is a similar pattern regarding the number of women. In 2010, 43% of Cabinet Office senior civil service staff were women; this dropped to 39% last year, while numbers in the Senior Civil Service are down 9%. Two thirds of the lowest paid jobs but only a quarter of the highest paid go to women.
A Cabinet Office spokeswoman said: "To win the global race we need the best civil servants regardless of their background. This Government's reform programme will ensure we have an exceptional civil service delivering high quality public services more cheaply. As part of our reforms, we launched a new apprenticeship scheme to open up Whitehall to those without a degree.
"We know that for too long talent management in the civil service has been weak. That's why Francis Maude has commissioned research to examine the blockages preventing women from reaching the most senior levels of the civil service."


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While Florian Thauvin does not yet have the same international profile as Paul Pogba, the hype surrounding him prior to the FIFA U-20 World Cup Turkey 2013 came close to rivalling the attention given to the Juventus player. However, his disappointing start to the tournament had led some observers to believe that the global stage was a step too far for the 20-year-old.
The attacking midfielder put in a subdued performance in Les Bleuets' opening Group A encounter with Ghana, during which he had a mild on-pitch disagreement with Pogba and was taken off with half an hour to go. Then against USA, he appeared to overdo his dribbling attempts, and was subsequently replaced at half-time.
It was at that point that France coach Pierre Mankowski admitted the existence of a 'Thauvin problem', stating: "He was struggling. When I substituted him, he didn't take it well. At the moment, he's not the same Florian that we knew a month ago. He needs to clear his head."
And then, mirroring the French team as a whole, he reached a turning point in the Round-of-16 victory over Turkey. The Orleans native put in a brilliant display on that occasion, even if he conspired to blast a penalty over the bar in the second half.
The miss had no bearing on the final score, but it did constitute another mental blow for the young Frenchman.
"Yes, I've definitely doubted myself," Thauvin told FIFA.com after the 2-1 semi-final triumph over Ghana. "It came down to not being all that effective at the beginning of the tournament. But that's all behind me now, and I just need to keep heading in the right direction," he added with a broad smile.
During France's quarter-final duel with Uzbekistan, he finally got off the mark – from the penalty spot. In a gesture which revealed the close-knit nature of the French squad, his team-mates insisted that he take the kick, in order that he erase the memory of the one missed versus Turkey. "They said to me, 'Flo, this one's yours.' I was really touched by the way they dealt with it," he said.
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Named the Ligue 1 Young Player of the Year for season 2012/13, Thauvin has already played 51 times for Bastia's senior side, scoring ten goals over two campaigns. It appears, following his dominant and decisive performance against the Ghanaians in Wednesday's semi-final, that he is beginning to recapture his domestic form at Turkey 2013.
"I was lucky enough to grab two goals today and to help my country qualify for the final," said the skilful No20. "If I created a bit of history in the process, that's all the better, but now what we have to do is make sure our name ends up on the trophy," he said, in reference to France's first-ever appearance in the tournament's finale.
Aside from the obvious joy he felt at having helped his team-mates to emerge victorious, his productive outing was also a way of proving his overall worth to the side.
"I really wanted to make up for my displays in the group stage, which were poor, to be quite honest," he stated bluntly. "Since then, we've played well in the knockout phase and did so again today against Ghana, even though they're a great side and caused us all sorts of problems."
Having now notched up three goals in the competition, Thauvin has even re-entered the race for top scorer - to his mild surprise. "Really? How many has Yaya got?" he asked, upon learning that he still has a chance of beating team-mate Yaya Sanogo to the adidas Golden Boot award.
The attack-minded international's eyes lit up momentarily, but his team spirit quickly regained control. "No, I'm not really aiming for that. Our objective is to win the U-20 World Cup. If I end up as top scorer, that would just be the icing on the cake," he said. Having come a long way in the space of three weeks, who would bet against Thauvin holding aloft both trophies come the end of the tournament?


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It's hard to believe the remake of the 1947 comedy The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is finally in front of cameras. The film has been in the works for well over a decade and gone through a multitude of bankable lead actors including Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell, and Sacha Baron Cohen, but Ben Stiller turned out to be the last man standing, and not only is he starring in the flick, but he's also directing it. The plot centers on a LIFE Magazine proofreader (Stiller) who, incapable of standing up for himself in the real world, retreats to a fantasy where he becomes his poised, confident opposite. While we previously saw Stiller and co-star Adam Scott playing with a Stretch Armstrong doll, the latest photo is even stranger as it shows a nearly unrecognizable Stiller in old age makeup alongside Kristen Wiig. I'm not sure where this scene is in the movie (I haven't seen the Danny Kaye original), but kudos to the makeup department.
Hit the jump to check out the set photos. The film also stars Shirley MacLaine, Patton Oswalt, Kathryn Hahn, and Sean Penn. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is due out December 25, 2013. [Update: We've removed the unofficial images.]


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Let's jump back in time to 1997 and focus on the Unadilla Valley Sports Center motocross track which (not) coincidently is also the location of round ten of the 2012 Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championships. That's this very weekend!
The Unadilla track harkens back to a time when motocross tracks were more natural. The Unadilla circuit combines roughness with some hills and line selection and technique is key. In 1997, a kid from Florida named Ricky Carmichael took the 125 nationals by storm. He started at Gainesville, which was written off as a fluke--hey, RC had home track knowledge there. Or not. By the time the series hit Unadilla, everyone knew that we were seeing something special.
On this day in '97 though it was the second place rider in the 125 series, Yamaha's Kevin Windham who would shine through. Windham was in his third year on the Yamaha YZ125 and this year, he was wearing number 7. He'd been consistently second place all season, trying to find a way to stop the Carmichael express. He also battled defending champion Steve Lamson at times. But on this day, Windham wasn't to be stopped by anyone.
15 years later, we still say that when Windham is on, he's hard to stop. And it was very much the case at Unadilla back then.
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In the first moto, Windham grabbed the holeshot and led every lap on his way to the win. Using some great lines and flowing around the track, Windham was a force in the first moto. RC didn't get the start he wanted, got into second and tried valiantly to try and catch Windham. In the process he went down and tweaked an ankle but salvaged second, only losing three points in the process.
In the second moto, KW followed Lamson around the first turn, grabbed the lead about halfway through the first lap and in a carbon copy ride to the first moto, he said "See ya'" and won again. Windham led every lap in both motos and collected his second and third moto wins of the year--it was a great performance on his Alley Semar-tuned YZ 125. Carmichael was right there off the start but he didn't have anything for Kevin. He made it into second and went down on an off-camber, dropping back to fourth at one point before crashing even further back. It wasn't a good day for the series points leader.
Carmichael would go on to win the championship, but Unadilla proved just another example of when Windham's on, he's on, and there's nothing anyone can do. Windham has collected three wins and six podiums at Unadilla, but his best day of all there may have come in 1997, where he was simply untouchable.


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Grey's Anatomy Review: "Sympathy for the Parents"at .
Last night's episode of Grey's Anatomy it was all about children. Everyone in one way or another was connected by either being a parent or the potential to becoming one.
The best way to sum it up is through Meredeth's very own insightful words:
Meredith: It's the most important job in the world. You probably should need a license to do it, but then most of us wouldn't even pass the written exam. Some people are naturals. They were born to do it. Some have other gifts. But the good news is biology dictates you don't have to do it alone. You can waste your whole life wondering, but the only way to find out what kind of parent you'd be is to finally stop talking about it and just do it. | permalink
Since each character had to go through their own path, let's dissect "Sympathy for the Parents":
- Meredith and Derek: The episode began with Derek asking Meredith how she felt about starting a family with babies (then he quickly changed it to a baby - obviously Derek sensed the shock in Meredith's body language). Because of a patient dying, it made Derek realize that he did not want either of them to be alone when the other kicked the bucket. Meredith, thanks to her new BFF - (BTW - how great is Alex and Meredith as besties!? So cute!) she realized that she will be nothing like her mother and agrees by the end of the show to start a family with McDreamy! All together now: Aww!
- Alex and Aaron: With Aaron's arrival we got to learn so much about what made Alex the man he is today. He basically was the father in Aaron's life from the time he was just a little kid himself. Having to handle such grown up issues and such a young age really makes you a different person. We get now why he has so much pent up anger and how scary it must be to even think of becoming a parent. It was good for Meredith to be there for him and let him know that he is nothing like his father. We heart Alex!
- Callie and Arizona: It is like the big pink elephant in the room that neither one of them wants to discuss. The whole episode, Arizona basically wanted to talk about everything under the sun, but kids. Callie on the other hand, really weighed the pros and cons about being a parent. And thanks to Miranda and her ridiculously cute story about Tucker, she was able to conclude by the end of the show that she definitely wants kids.
- Owen, Cristina, and Teddy: Our favorite love triangle that no one wants to own up to. Teddy is still very much in love with Owen. Owen wants to one day have children, possibly with Cristina, and Cristina never wants kids. Period. What a tangled web they weave! There's been a couple times now where we've caught Owen glancing at Teddy in a more than best friends kind of way. Will this be the feather that breaks the camel's back? Will Owen leave Cristina or worse, will he cheat on her? We hope not! We liked the way it ended with Cristina offering her hand to Owen. There is definitely something special there.
- Mark and Sloan: She's back! We know how much Mark wants to have a family and raise children. So much so he has been willing to change his ways and actually court Teddy (we still do not like them together). Now that his daughter is back with baby in tow, will she stay for good? If so, will that take the pressure off of Mark to want to be a father?
We thought there were plenty of touching storylines on last night's episode. But one part that was rather annoying would be April's obsession with McDreamy! What is that? Thank God Lexie saw it and confronted her about it, but she didn't really do anything else.
C'mon Lexie! Stand up for your sista!
So our question for all of you out there: Do you think Derek will ever cheat on Meredith?
What did you think of last night's episode?
Don't forget to check out our favorite Grey's Anatomy quotes after the jump!
Derek: If anything should happen to me, I don't want you to just be you.
Meredith: Well we would make pretty babies.
Derek: So you're thinking about it?
Meredith: Oh, I'm thinking about it. | permalink
Bailey: If you are going to wait for the perfect time to have kids - you're never going to have kids. | permalink
Teddy: Don't tell him what to do, just tell him how you fell. | permalink
Lexie: How did you do it? How did you learn?
Mark: I'm still learning. | permalink
Owen: When you're commanding officer tells you to stand down, you stand down.
Christina: I'm not in the army and you're not my commanding officer. | permalink
Cristina: (to Teddy) You want to have kids?
Callie: You don't?
Cristina: Have you met me? No! | permalink
Bailey: So what happened after jouvey?
Meredith: Dr. Bailey, I don't think Alex -
Bailey: Mind your business. | permalink
Cristina: I hate men, they're stupid.
Meredith: Derek asked me to have a baby with him this morning.
Cristina: Really stupid. | permalink


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#177 9 1/2" ID x 9 11/16" D x 3/32" CS Fluorosilicone 70 Durometer
Product Description
O-Rings are round rubber washers that are placed around the valve stem in order to create a seal, preventing leaking from occurring and providing an excellent resistance to vibration. The listed size is referenced from AS568 dimensions, which is the Aerospace Size Standard for O-rings from the Society of Automotive Engineers.
Flurosilicone Specs:
- ASTM D 1418 Designations: FVMQ
- ASTM D 2000, SAE J200 Type/
- General Temperature Range: -70 to +350 Degrees (F)
FVMQ Performs Well In:
- Hot air
- Hydrocarbons (aromatic, chlorinated, nitro)
- Ozone
- Sunlight
FVMQ Does Not Perform Well In:
- Hydrazine
- Brake fluids
- Ketones


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Maia Campbell on DWTS Season 16 – Rumor or Campaign??
Were any of you fans to "In The House"? Well, last night, a cast member of the show, Maia Campbell, tweeted this tweet below. The "you just never know" leaves a person wondering depending on it's context? Though I'm thinking it's just a campaign post. So, if this were to happen, would you like to see Maia Campbell on Dancing With The Stars? I think I'd be open to it. She might a great partner for Maks or Val. Heidi?
RT if You would like to see me on the next season of #dwts you just never know @DancingABC
— IG: Maia_Campbell (@MaiaCampbell) January 15, 2013
Heidi: I go back and forth. The way she wrote it almost seems like she's pondering an offer, but odds are great that she's just trying to get something going. And campaigning never works. 🙂 I'm guessing this is a campaign – but Vogue is right. We are right in the time frame when rumors start to come out and the producers are hitting it hard to find people to dance. Show starts in March, which means rehearsals start in late February, right? I don't remember the exact date off the top of my head, but they are running out of time.


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Things That Go Boom
A colleague told me the other day he didn't want his system to "go boom." I laughed and noted that many of the systems I've worked on over my career are supposed to go boom. You just want don't want them to go boom at the wrong time.
I think that makes things a little harder. It is easier to make a safe light bulb than to make a safe explosive. The explosive is supposed to be dangerous. So while testing is important across the board, it is especially important when you have systems that can cause significant injury or property loss.
Up until fairly recently, the kinds of things I built — especially the dangerous ones — rarely had GUIs in the traditional sense of the word. It was pretty easy to create test drivers that would exercise the system so you could simplify a large number of comprehensive tests. When you start throwing GUIs into the mix, that gets a little harder.
What you really need to produce those kind of tests (and, possibly, scripting for end users) is a way to fake keyboard and mouse events into the system. Usually, how you do this is highly system-dependent. I talked about a Windows solution for this way back in the 1990s. There are other ways to accomplish the same task under Windows, and on Linux you might resort to xdotool or some similar tools. You could also insert input events into X or into the underlying system using lots of different methods.
If you are just interested in testing, though, you might also want a more universal solution that frees you from worrying about exactly how the job gets done. I have a love/hate relationship with Java, but I will confess this is one area where Java is a great choice. Assuming, of course, that you have Java available. But if you have a system big enough to have a GUI, I'm guessing you have (or can easily get) Java to run on it.
The secret is to use the robot feature of the old Java AWT (Abstract Windows Toolkit) library. Unless you are an old-school Java programmer, you probably haven't used AWT since most people now use Swing or some other GUI library. But the robot feature works even if you don't use the rest of AWT.
Using the
Robot class is fairly simple. You need the
import, of course:
import java.awt.Robot;
You also need to create a
Robot object:
public class Action { private static Robot robot;
You can use the object's
delay method to pause for a given number of milliseconds, which is handy when dealing with keyboard and mouse handling. You can also use methods like
keyPress, and
keyRelease to simulate input events:
… robot.mousePress(InputEvent.BUTTON1_MASK); robot.delay(200); robot.mouseRelease(InputEvent.BUTTON1_MASK); robot.delay(200); … robot.keyPress(65); // A robot.delay(25); robot.keyRelease(65);
You might prefer to set an automatic delay time for every event by calling
setAutoDelay. You can also wait for all events to finish by calling
If you really want to get fancy, you can even ask the robot to read the pixel color at a given screen location or do a screen capture. This allows for some very sophisticated scripting, and since most embedded systems have a very fixed screen size and font selections, it might even be more reasonable to code a test like this than it would be on a desktop system.
I've posted to this blog for about 5 years and it is with a heavy heart that I close this, the final entry. As you probably know by now, Dr. Dobb's will be frozen in January and while the 25 years of articles and postings I've contributed will still live on, there won't be any more, which is very sad for me both as a long time writer and an even longer-time reader.
I wish I could thank everyone that I learned from at DDJ over the years, but there's simply too many. Like so many, I owe Jon Erickson pretty much everything having to do with my writing career. But I also learned a lot from countless other people associated with DDJ over the years. I also learned a lot by interacting with our readers by mail (back in the day), e-mail, and at conferences. Our readers tended to be a cut above (or, maybe, several cuts above) and I was never above asking a job applicant if they read DDJ.
Perhaps I'll reorganize my personal blog, which never really recovered from a failed hacking attempt, or add some new articles to my embedded site. Maybe I'll use the time to write some more books. Or perhaps I'll find a new writing home somewhere. But I can't imagine a new home that has the history, breadth, and technical weight of Dr. Dobb's Journal.
Thanks for letting me share my projects and ideas with you over the years. I hope to see you somewhere soon where hardcore technical discourse finds a home.


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We have a slew of great fall sales going on at Design Public and we want to make sure that you don't miss them. You have until just midnight tomorrow, October 22, 2105, to scoop up fresh products from these lines and save.
Bend Goods. We haven't seen wire so skillfully used in modern pieces since Bertoia. Bend Goods offers chairs, stools, pendant lights, coffee tables, even wire faux taxidermy.
The Bend Goods Lucy Counter Stool is an architect favorite: Shop all Bend Goods
Eastvold. Eastvold furniture is beautifully made in the USA. With a penchant for fine walnut and fresh takes on mid-century modern style, Matt Eastvold's designs are classics you'll treasure for years.
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Innit Designs. These Acapulco chairs embody everything that was Rat Pack fab about Palm Springs and bring that same relaxing feeling a Mexican vacation would to your patio or deck. Or even your bedroom — why not?
Pablo. Whether you need a sleek new floor lamp, a funky anglepoise lamp, or a chic pendant light, Pablo has a wonderful lamp for you. Photographed above are Pablo's Tube Top Colored Table Lamps, which are an interior designer favorite.
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And don't forget Vitra, which also ends tomorrow night. See this post for more Vitra temptations, like the iconic George Nelson Ball Clock seen here.
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This professionally remanufactured Lexmark 18C1529 (#29) color ink cartridge is an original Lexmark 18C1529 (#29) inkjet cartridge which has been through one cycle of service and has been remanufactured using both OEM and non-OEM parts. The 18C1529 cartridge has been thoroughly cleaned along with the printhead nozzles. Then the OEM 18C1529 was inspected for any possible shell leakage, tested on the operation of all electrical circuitry and finally was run through an actual print test. If the cartridge passes our rigid standards, it has been remanufactured for your Lexmark printer! We offer a 100% Quality Satisfaction Guarantee on our remanufactured 18C1529 ink cartridge.
Please be aware that due to changes in printer programming the ink levels for this particular cartridge might appear to be low or empty. It is indeed full and will print a full yield.
Remanufactured using both OEM and non-OEM parts.
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